Welcome to Wargaming.net Wiki!
Variants

Shimakaze

Redirect page
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 01:37, 18 May 2015
← Older edit
Latest revision as of 17:28, 29 July 2016
Redirected page to Ship:Shimakaze
 
11 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown
Line 1:Line 1:
?{{ShipData|Ship=+#REDIRECT [[Ship:Shimakaze]]
? +
?|The SHIMAKAZE (hull number 125, ordered under the 1939 Program) was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy fleet destroyer, designated "Type C." Sixteen other units were ordered but later cancelled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, SHIMAKAZE was a successful design, combining large size (some 25 feet longer than YUGUMO), firepower (six 5" guns in new Type D turrets), and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high-pressure, high-temperature boilers which developed nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction.<br />+
?<br />+
?The Shimakaze-class Destroyer is a Tier 10 ship and marks the end of the Japanese destroyer Tech Tree.+
? +
?|History=The Shimakaze was laid down on the 8th of August 1941 in the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, a IJN-ran shipyard which specializes in vessels destroyer class and smaller. The new design combines large size, firepower, and heavy torpedo armament (one could argue that these armament heavy designs are influenced by IJN’s Decisive Battle Doctrine or Kantai Kessen) with incredible speed up to 40-knots.<br />+
? +
? +
?The IJN originally intended to develop 16 additional destroyers of this experimental class, but hampered with the ill-fated Battle of Midway (1942) and Japan’s limited resources and small industrial capacity, the project was deemed too expensive thus cancelled and passed on to an upgraded Akizuki design. However, that too was cancelled due to a string of Japanese defeats that followed shortly after Midway. +
? +
?Nevertheless, the original Shimakaze prototype was continued to be built (though with many delays) and was completed on the 10th of May 1943 and fitted with state of the art technology that the IJN could provide at the time. But, it was very difficult decision for the IJN on where to place her into their formations, thus she became more or less independent of destroyer squadrons. +
? +
?In service, she saw her first sortie in July 1943 as the radar guide and screen flagship for the Kiska evacuation under the cover of fog. Two days later, the Americans forces shelled rocky island with thousands of rounds and landed over 34,000 men, only to discover that the Japanese had disappeared. In early 1944, the Shimakaze underwent a refit, losing one of her 127mm gun battery in exchange for 28 25mm AA guns to counter the ever increasing role of naval aircrafts in the pacific theatre. +
? +
?Refitted, the Shimakaze rendezvous with the Combined Fleet, operating as an attachment destroyer and was deployed with Yamato and Musashi during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in the attempt to reinforce Biak in June 1944. However in the Battle of Leyte Gulf several months later, the Shimakaze never participated and end up just picking survivors from the sunken Musashi.+
? +
?Days later, even though Shimakaze was part of the fleet which that surprised the American escort carriers off Samar on 25 October 1944, she was placed away from the fight again. This time to pick up survivors from the heavy cruiser Maya which sunk a day earlier by torpedoes from the American submarine Dace. Her crowded decks and made it nearly impossible for any of her main armaments (particularly her torpedoes) to be used.+
? +
?Though an impressive destroyer of its time, the Shimakaze was lost on the 11th of November 1944, where she helped escort a troop convoy to Ormoc to reinforce the remaining Japanese forces in the Philippines. Fighting against hundreds of carrier planes from the American Task Force 38 under, the Shimakaze and three other destroyers were sunk with its convoy.+
? +
?== General Characteristics: ==+
? +
?Type: Destroyer<br />Displacement: 2,570 long tons (2,610 t) (standard) 3,300 long tons (3,400 t) (full load)<br />Length: 129.5 m (424 ft 10 in) o/a 126 m (413 ft 5 in) w/l<br />Beam: 11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)<br />Draft: 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)<br />Installed power: 75,000 shp (56,000 kW)<br />Propulsion: 2 × Kampon impulse geared steam turbines 3 × Kampon water-tube boilers 2 × shafts<br />Speed: 40.9 kn (75.7 km/h; 47.1 mph)<br />Range: 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)<br />Complement: 267 (May 1943)+
? +
? +
?Armament: (As Built)+
? +
?* 6 × 127 mm (5 in)/50 cal 12.7 cm/50 Type 3dual purpose guns (3x2)+
?* 6 × 25 mm (1 in) Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns (2x3)[4]+
?* 2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns (1x2)+
?* 15 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (3x5)+
?* 18 depth charges<br />+
? +
? +
?Early 1944 Refit: +
? +
?* 4 × 127 mm (5 in)/50 cal dual purpose guns (2x2)[5]+
?* 16 × 25 mm (1 in) anti-aircraft guns (4x3, 2x2) (increased in June to 28)[6]+
?* 15 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (3x5)+
?* 36 depth charges+
? +
?|HistoricalGallery=File:Shimakaze Class Destroyer.jpeg+
? +
?|Ref_references=+
? +
?|Ref_sources=NeoSolstice (World of Warships Forum)<br />Long Lancers<br />Wikipedia+
? +
?|Ref_links=[https://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/7250-focus-the-shimakaze-class-destroyer-shimakaze/ Neosolstice - Shimakaze Class Destroyer],<br /> [https://www.combinedfleet.com/shimak_n.htm Long Lancers - Shimakaze Class Destroyer],<br />[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_%281942%29 Wikipedia - Shimakaze Class Destroyer]+
? +
?}}+

Latest revision as of 17:28, 29 July 2016

#REDIRECTShip:Shimakaze
Retrieved from "http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/index.php?title=Ship:PJSD012_Shimakaze_1943&oldid=234749"